9-letter words that end in ian
- sectarian — of or relating to sectaries or sects.
- selachian — belonging to the Selachii, a group of fishes comprising the sharks, skates, and rays.
- septarian — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- serbonian — of, relating to, or designating the large marshy tract of land in the northern part of ancient Egypt in which entire armies are said to have been swallowed up.
- sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
- slavonian — of or relating to Slavonia or its inhabitants.
- slovakian — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
- slovenian — of or from Slovenia
- steradian — a solid angle at the center of a sphere subtending a section on the surface equal in area to the square of the radius of the sphere. Abbreviation: sr.
- strontian — strontianite.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- tactician — a person who is adept in planning tactics.
- tanzanian — a republic in E Africa formed in 1964 by the merger of the republic of Tanganyika and the former island sultanate of Zanzibar (including Pemba and adjacent small islands). 364,881 sq. mi. (945,037 sq. km). Capital: Dodoma.
- tartarian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a Tartar or the Tartars, the Mongolian and Turkish tribes who overran Asia and much of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.
- tasmanian — an island S of Australia: a state of the commonwealth of Australia. 26,382 sq. mi. (68,330 sq. km). Capital: Hobart.
- tellurian — of or characteristic of the earth or its inhabitants; terrestrial.
- tocharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- tokharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- tragedian — an actor especially noted for performing tragic roles.
- trigynian — relating to plants with three pistils, from the order Trigynia
- tsakonian — a modern Greek dialect spoken on the east coast of the Peloponnesus, descended from the Laconian dialect of ancient Sparta.
- tsimshian — a member of an American Indian people of the coastal region of British Columbia.
- tungusian — of or relating to a formerly nomadic Mongoloid people of E Siberia
- typhonian — of or relating to Typhon
- ukrainian — of or relating to Ukraine, its people, or their language.
- ultradian — of or relating to a biorhythm having a period of less than 24 hours.
- unitarian — a person who maintains that God is one being, rejecting the doctrine of the Trinity.
- valkyrian — any of the beautiful maidens attendant upon Odin who bring the souls of slain warriors chosen by Odin or Tyr to Valhalla and there wait upon them.
- varangian — any of the Northmen who, under Rurik, established a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century.
- varsovian — a native or inhabitant of Warsaw.
- veblenian — of, relating to, or suggesting the theories of Thorstein Veblen.
- verbarian — an inventor of words
- vergilian — pertaining to or characteristic of the poet Vergil.
- vespasian — (Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus) a.d. 9–79, Roman emperor 70–79.
- victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- virgilian — pertaining to or characteristic of the poet Vergil.
- virginian — of or relating to the state of Virginia.
- vitruvian — Marcus, flourished 1st century b.c, Roman architect, engineer, and author.
- vulcanian — of, relating to, or associated with Vulcan.
- vulgarian — a vulgar person, especially one whose vulgarity is the more conspicuous because of wealth, prominence, or pretensions to good breeding.
- wagnerian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Richard Wagner or his works: Wagnerian grandeur; a Wagnerian soprano.
- walachian — of or relating to the former SE European principality of Walachia (now part of Romania) or its inhabitants
- wernerian — pertaining to or characteristic of the views or the classificatory system of Alfred Werner.
- wilsonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Woodrow Wilson.
- wronskian — the determinant of order n associated with a set of n functions, in which the first row consists of the functions, the second row consists of the first derivatives of the functions, the third row consists of their second derivatives, and so on.
- yeniseian — a group of languages spoken in Siberia, the only surviving member of which is Ket.
- zambezian — a river in S Africa, flowing S and W from Zambia through E Angola and Zambia and then E along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the Indian Ocean. 1650 miles (2657 km) long.
- zephyrian — of, relating to, or like a zephyr; full of or containing light breezes.
- zirconian — (mineralogy) Describing minerals containing zirconium.